Lucky Hanoi

... wanted us to come eat at his restaurant. Which we did. All in all, you couldn't have scripted a more spectacular entrance into Vietnam. Let there be no mistake, the Americans have arrived. The train ride to Hanoi was scheduled to take 10 hours. We ...

... , a bit harsh by anyones standards. While taking in Hanoi we stumbled across a tour company that were offering bike tours of vietnam, and we couldn't resist... mmm, bikes! So we packed our stuff and headed to the northeast of Vietnam, two bikes, a ...

... among my worst travel experiences...EVER! This time around we thankfully shortened the journey to a pleasant 45-minute flight to Hanoi on Vietnam Airlines, possibly the best $60 I have ever spent! Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam. Having visited a lot ...

... onto very plush trip to Halong Bay, overnight on Junk, gourmet food and cabin, very nice, stunning views, lucky with weather. Back to Hanoi visit Uncle Ho in his Mausoleum looking very glowing and orange. Surreal Museum attached, Temple of Literature, ...

... and jump in a cab to the Hanoi Opera Hilton. We have lunch next door with Ma and Pa, at Highland Coffee. (Vietnam's equivilant to Starbucks.) We don't do much during the afternoon, we chill out at the pool and run around our bedroom like kids, ...

... . Good thing they constantly warn you with the horn, the second language of the Vietnamese, in Lucky's words. We have seen a couple interesting things in Hanoi, one being the embalmed corpse of Ho Chi Minh. This was a pretty freaky experience. The ...

... positive, but I fear this one may not be so jolly! We arrived back to Hanoi, and are to make our way down the coast of Vietnam to Hué. However, we are travelling by sleeper train.....and we booked too late to get a 'Soft Sleeper' so we are in a 'Hard ...

... on we encountered a whole list of problems. Now, we could fill an entire Travelpod with the hassles we came across in Hanoi and the rest of Vietnam but we'll try and make it brief!   The hotel we had booked before arriving in Vietnam turned out ...

... . After working through our third breakdown and winding through the mountains we stopped off for breakfast and our first meal in Vietnam, though we were a little too tired and a little too wary of the toilet situation over the next several hours to enjoy ...

... nbsp; Finally we went to the Museum of Ethnology, a fine collection that succeeds in illuminating the minority cultures of Vietnam.  There are loads of artifacts and several videos, along with descriptions of each group, where it ...